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"Yes, it is." Her guide bowed to her. "Then, mademoiselle, you have great gifts. For you stood upon that ice-slope and moved along and up it, as only people of experience stand and move. I noticed you. On the rocks, too, you had the instinct for the hand-grip and the foothold and with which foot to take the step. And that instinct, mademoiselle, comes as a rule only with practice."
Ochiltree paused "I was a bauld craigsman," he said, "ance in my life, and mony a kittywake's and lungie's nest hae I harried up amang thae very black rocks; but it's lang, lang syne, and nae mortal could speel them without a rope and if I had ane, my ee-sight, and my footstep, and my hand-grip, hae a' failed mony a day sinsyne And then, how could I save you?
ONE afternoon in April, Theodore Thomas, the conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, had turned out his desk light and was about to leave his office in the Auditorium Building, when Harsanyi appeared in the doorway. The conductor welcomed him with a hearty hand-grip and threw off the overcoat he had just put on.
The black-faced porters were taking the measures of men as they entered the car. Here comes a gray-haired clergyman, carrying a heavy hand-satchel, and by his side an athletic looking commercial tourist. One of the black porters glides forward, takes the light hand-grip, containing the travelling man's tooth-brush, nightshirt, and razor, and runs up the step with it.
That night I ran into Bolles. ... Well, he uttered a vile insult, and I all but throttled him. Here's my hand, Dick." The hand-grip that followed drew a gasp from Warrington. "Not every man would be so good about it, John. What shall we do about McQuade?" "I was about to say that I shall see McQuade within an hour," in a tone that did not promise well for McQuade. "Wait a day or two, John.
His first impulse was to give Gordon a hard hand-grip of friendship; his second to tell Mrs. Goring his high opinion of her courage and loyalty. He followed both impulses, but felt a little embarrassment in addressing the lady of various names. He took Mrs. Goring's hand in his and remarked with a smile: "I scarcely know how to address you now. Is it Mrs. Goring? or have I got it wrong?
The language was unknown to Sime, but the fierce hand-grip upon his wrist grew fiercer. That dead tongue, that language unspoken since the dawn of Christianity, was known to the man who had been the companion of Sir Michael Ferrara. In upon Sime swept a swift conviction that one could not witness such a scene as this and live and move again amongst one's fellow-men!
He strove to shake her off but could not, for on that heaving, rolling surface he dared not loose his hand-grip, so he turned his flat and florid face, and, seizing her leg between his teeth, bit and worried at it. In her pain and rage Meg screeched aloud that was the cry which Foy had heard.
Their clothes are faded and weather-stained, their belts and straps and equipments chafed and worn, the woodwork of their rifles smooth of butt and shiny of hand-grip from much using and cleaning.
One last firm hand-grip, two rather husky good-byes, now that the actual moment for parting had come, and the pair were separated one bound for the far, mysterious East, the other to return in a few days to the ship he had come to look upon as his real home. It was with a few minutes in hand that Frobisher leapt out of his cab at the dock gates, and collected his few belongings.
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